Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3500, Daniel Ferguson, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Ferguson, Daniel Ferguson,
R. 3500
CONTENTS

State of New York
Tioga County ss; Daniel Ferguson Junior of the Town & County of Tioga being duly sworn affirm that he was living with his Father Daniel Ferguson in the annexed Statement named of recollects that in 1775. his said Father was in the Service of his country as a Soldier the length of time he does not recollect nor under what Officers - that his Father to the best of his recollection his said Father was engaged in the Service of his country as an enlisted Soldier from the time of his first entering the Service until the close of the war in the Continental Service that he well recollects of his returning home at various times with written furloughs which he saw and read that he usually returned about once a year, except an absence at the time of two years - that he this deponent has usually understood from those who knew his Father in the Service that he served as above stated and was a faithful Soldier - and also that he recollects his inability to serve as by him stated - That he has become very infirm and his recollection very imperfect - that to the best of this deponents recollection his Father entered the Service under the Captain and in the Regiment as by him stated - that that the said Capt. for some misconduct at the Battle of White Plains was cashiered and David Strong who was then his Lieut. appointed in his place - That at that time and for several years since his Father was best known by the name of Ferguson and presuming his name was so written

to the enlistment Roll - that his Father could not write & thinks his name must have been  was written if placed to the Roll by some other person. - That he does believe if any Soldier who served in the war of the Rev- olution is entitled to a pension his Father is one and that he is entirely destitute of property - al- together helpless and depends upon the deponent for a support - that he is little able to afford him the same - April 15 th 1819.
I swear to before me the Hon. Goodrich one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga
Daniel Ferguson Jr.
Tioga County ss: I Noah Goodrich one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga do certify that I have been acquainted with Daniel Ferguson Junior above named and that he has uniformly sustained the character of a man of the most strict truth and veracity - that he has during all the time I have been acquainted with Daniel Ferguson the Elder who has sustained a like character - that from uniform report during all that time I have no doubt that the said Daniel Fer- guson the Elder served in the War of the Revolution as by him stated - That his reputation as a true and faithful Soldier in the service of his Country in the said Revolutionary war is well established - And I do further certify that he is in very reduced circumstances and greatly needs the assistance of his country for support -
April 15 - 1819 - Noah Goodrich one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga

White Sulphur Springs W. Va.
Col.
Hon. J. M. Parker House of Reps.

State of New-York
Tioga County ss: William Ferguson of the town of Aurora in said county being duly sworn depon- seth and saith that he was eighty four years old the eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five That he has resided in the town of Aurora in said county upwards of sixty years. That he was born in the town of Salisbury, Litchfield County in the State of Connecticut and is the son of Daniel & Hannah Ferguson, That when depon- nent was about twelve years of age his father & Mother Daniel Ferguson & Hannah Ferguson moved from the town of Salisbury upwards to the town of Great Barrington in the State of Mas- sachusetts and lived there with his family for eight years, from thence the said Daniel Ferguson with his wife & family moved to the town of Aurora in the County of Tioga & State of New-York where deponent has resided ever since That deponents father Daniel Ferguson, accor- ding to deponents best recollection, died in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & for- ty six or in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty five; deponent has no record of the time of the death of the said Daniel Ferguson That the said Hannah Ferguson, the mother of this deponent died about five or six years prior to the death of the said Daniel Ferguson. That the

Said Daniel Ferguson did not marry again at the death of his wife Hannah as a said - That at the time of his death he left no wife surviving him - Deponent has always understood and has been so informed that his father Daniel Ferguson was married to Hannah Jackson in Salisbury Litchfield County Connecticut but at what time or by whom deponent does not now rec- ollect - such as deponent any record evidence of the marriage - That the said Hannah after her intermarriage with the said Daniel & while she & the said Daniel lived together as man & wife, she the said Hannah gave birth to ten children, two of whom died before deponent was born as he has always understood in the family That the names of the eight children that de- ponent knows were as follows - and are stated ac- cording to their ages to wit Sarah - Hannah - Abigail - Mary - Rachael - Daniel, William and Rebecca Ferguson. That at the time of the death of Deponent's father Daniel Ferguson, there were but two of the children of Deponent's father living to his knowledge, information or belief to wit Daniel Ferguson Jr & deponent - That Daniel Ferguson Jr deponent's brother died be- tween fifteen and twenty years since according to deponent's best recollection and left surviving him four children as near as deponent can re- collect - The said Daniel's wife had left him

some years before his death & has not been heard of since by disponent.
Disponent further saith that he well recollects that after the close of the Revolutionary War his father returned home from it - and while he was in the American Army in the War aforesaid disponent's mother would frequently talk to disponent about his father being in the War and after the War and he returned home disponent's father would frequently tell him about the war & when he had been - said he was in Col. Bradley's Regiment - At one time while disponent's father was in the War aforesaid news came that his father laid sick and disponent's mother left home to go & take care of him either at Pehkill or Fishkill on the North River and was gone several days, disponent was very young at the time & does not recollect the whole particulars -
Disponent further saith that his father Daniel Ferguson died in the Town of Gage and his wife Hannah, died in the State of New-York and in that part of the state last aforesaid known as the Holland Purchase - That the said Daniel & his wife Hannah lived in the Town of Gage after they removed from Connecticut all the time to their deaths except about two years which time they lived in the Place called

The Holland Purchase,
Sworn & subscribed before me this 24 th day of June A.D. 1856 before me, William H. Seward
William H. Seward
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. TIOGA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I, LEROY W. KINGMAN, Clerk of said County, and also Clerk of the Courts of Record thereof, do hereby certify that
Justin Esq whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and thereon written, was at the date of said Certificate of proof, or acknowl- edgment, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same, and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said
Justin and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, is genuine, and that the same is in due form, and in accordance with the laws of the State of New-York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Courts and County, at Owego, this 24 th day of June 1856 L. W. Kingman . . . . . CLERK.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
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50 100
P. O.
Daniel Ferguson
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N o 39.060
Dan l Ferguson
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N. York
Hon J. M. Parker Ap. d 24/56
3500
June 7 1832

Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Official Business.
Daniel Ferguson N.Y. - original
Wm L. Parker, N.Y.R.

100
Daniel Ferguson, Deacon, New York
Ltr. Brn. J. M. Parker. July 5/56.
Not. June 7. 1832

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office Hartford Jan'y. 12 th 1856
I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Daniel Ferguson , in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this Office, and find the name of Daniel Ferguson on a Pay Roll under the following heading, vis. "Settlement with the 5 th Connecticut Regt. Phillip B. Bradley Esq. Colonel before 1 st Jan'y. 1780," where the said Ferguson is credited with service as a private from March 26 th 1777 to Jan'y. 1 st 1780 = 2 years 9 mo s . 5 days In another settlement with Colonel Bradley's Regiment "for the year 1780," I also find the name of Daniel Ferguson , where he is credited with service as a private from Jan'y. 1 st 1780 to March 26 th 1780 = 2 months 26 days , making three years for the term of his service in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army;
Alex Merrill, Comptroller by Geo. Robinson Clerk

Daniel Ferguson (Private)
Bradley's Regt Connecticut
1776-77 to Aug. 1782.
30 th March 1810.
Elizabeth
born at ... Not on Roll.
Hester Root
M c Drake
This is to certify that the within is a true copy of the original. The proof required in this instance by the State War Office of the State of Connecticut.
Not on Roll born at ... Not on Roll

State of New York
Sierra County ss. On this Twentieth day of March 1818 before me the Sub- scribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sierra in the State of New York, personally appeared David Ferguson aged Eighty seven years Resident in the Town of Sierra, County of Sierra & State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary wars" That he the said David Fer- guson according to the best of his recollection enlisted in the Summer of 1775 for the term of seven months at Salisbury in the State of Connecticut in Company commanded by Captain ——— Elmer, Regiment he cannot rec- ollect the Connecticut line. That he immediately entered the Service & continued to serve in the said Company & in the Service of the United States until the begin- ning of the following winter, when he was discharged from Service at Ticonderoga — That soon after his discharge he enlisted for the term of three months at Salisbury before mentioned in the Company commanded by Capt. David Buel in Col. ——— Moady Regiment of the Connecticut line that

he immediately entered the Service & continued to serve in the said Corps or in the Service of the United States a part of the term of his enlistment - that he then enlisted to serve during the continuation of the war a short distance above fort Independence, Westchester County in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Solomon Strong in Colonel Brady's Regiment of the Connecticut line, that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the Service of the United States according to the best of his recollections until the month of January 1782, when he was taken sick at the Town of Reading in the State of Connecticut at his Winter Quarters, and then and there received a furlough to leave the Regiment from Brigadier General Huntington, until his health was restored - that he was under the care of a Physician, Doctor Porter until the declaration of Peace & the disbanding of the army and for some time afterwards, and was wholly unable to join the Regiment - that he was in the Battle of Germantown Monmouth - that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Service -
Daniel Ferguson
FERGUSON, DANIEL (CONN.) R-3500

Sworn to declared & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid.
Joshua Ferris — one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga
Tioga County ss, I Joshua Ferris one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga in the State of New York do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Dr. Ferguson did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the provisions of an act of Congress —
March 30 th 1818.
Joshua Ferris
Tioga County Clerk's Office
I certify that the above named
Joshua Ferris has been duly commissioned and qualified and now is a acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this 7 th day of May A.D. 1818.
[Handwritten signature: M. P. C. ... Clerk]